Includes extensive writings on psychoanalysis and its continuingly relevant wider applications

Provides a specialist resource in print and electronic format for global access to Winnicottian studies

The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott

12-Volume Set

D. W. Winnicott, Edited by Lesley Caldwell, and Helen Taylor Robinson

Description

Donald Woods Winnicott (1896-1971) was one of Britain's leading psychoanalysts and paediatricians. The author of some of the most enduring theories of the child and of child analysis, he coined terms such as the "good enough mother" and the "transitional object" (known to most as the security blanket). Winnicott's work is still used today by child and family therapists, social workers, teachers, and psychologists, and his papers and clinical observations are routinely studied by trainees in psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and clinical psychology. Winnicott also wrote for parents, teachers, social workers, paediatricians, childcare specialists, psychologists, policy makers, art and play therapists, and many others in the field of child and adult development.

Now, for the first time, virtually all of Winnicott's writings are presented chronologically in a multi-volume set, edited and annotated by leading Winnicott scholars. The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott brings together clinical case reports, child consultations, psychoanalytic articles, and public and private correspondence, as well as previously unpublished works on topics of continuing interest to contemporary readers (such as delinquency, antisocial behavior, corporal punishment, and child care). The Collected Works begins with an authoritative General Introduction by editors Lesley Caldwell and Helen Taylor Robinson, and volumes 1 - 11 each feature original introductory essays examining that volume's major themes, written by international Winnicott scholars and psychoanalysts. Throughout the Collected Works, editorial annotations provide historical context and background information of scholarly and clinical value. The 12th and final volume, edited by Robert Adès, contains additional complementary material, including comprehensive bibliographies of Winnicott's publications and letters, documentation of his lectures and broadcasts, and a selection of his drawings.

This extraordinary publication will be an essential resource for readers of Winnicott the world over and also for those interested in the history and origins of the fields of child development and psychoanalysis.

D. W. Winnicott, Edited by Lesley Caldwell, and Helen Taylor Robinson

Table of Contents

Volume 3, 1946-1951, with an Introduction by Vincenzo Bonaminio and Paolo Fabozzi

Volume 4, 1952-1955, with an Introduction by Dominique Scarfone

Volume 5, 1955-1959, with an Introduction by Jennifer Johns and Marcus Johns

Volume 6, 1960-1963, with an Introduction by Angela Joyce

Volume 7, 1964-1966, with an Introduction by Anna Ferruta

Volume 8, 1967-1968, with an Introduction by Ann Horne

Volume 9, 1969-1971, with an Introduction by Arne Jemstedt

Volume 10, Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry, with an Introduction by Marco Armellini

Volume 11, HumanNature and The Piggle, with an Introduction by Steven Groarke

Volume 12, Appendices and Bibliographies, with an Introduction by Robert Adès

The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott

12-Volume Set

D. W. Winnicott, Edited by Lesley Caldwell, and Helen Taylor Robinson

Author Information

Donald Woods Winnicott (1896-1971) was one of Britain's foremost pediatricians and psychoanalysts. He studied at the Leys School and at Jesus College, both in Cambridge, before training as a physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He worked at Queen's Hospital and Paddington Green Children's Hospital and in private practice with adults and children from the 1930s until his death. During the Second World War, he made BBC broadcasts to parents and worked with his second wife, Clare, in the Oxfordshire Evacuation Scheme. After the war, they contributed to the government planning of Children's Services.

Winnicott was a child and adult analyst and a training analyst for the British Psychoanalytical Society and its President from 1956 to 1959 and from 1965 to 1968. He was President of the Paediatric Section of the Royal Society of Medicine (1952) and of the Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Winnicott was a clinician committed to the dissemination of psychoanalytic ideas to wider global audiences, and he addressed a large variety of groups of professionals in his many talks, lectures, and publications.

Lesley Caldwell is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Association in private practice in London. She is an Honorary Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit and Honorary Senior Research Associate in the Italian Department at University College, London. As Chair of the Squiggle Foundation (2000-2003) and editor of the Winnicott Studies Monograph Series (2000-2008), she published four edited collections on D. W. Winnicott. She has been an editor for the Winnicott Trust since 2002 and was the Chair of Trustees from 2008-2012. With Angela Joyce, she published Reading Winnicott (2011). She has a continuing interest in psychoanalysis and the arts and has also written on film and the city of Rome.

Helen Taylor Robinson is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London, and was a clinical psychoanalyst with adults and children until her retirement. She was an Editor and Trustee of the Winnicott Trust for 17 years and co-edited Thinking about Children with Jennifer Johns and Ray Shepherd. Her special interest is in the relationship of psychoanalysis to the arts, literature, and cinema. She has been Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Psychoanalysis Unit of University College, London. She has contributed to books and journals in the field of psychoanalysis and to the European Psychoanalysis and Film Festival.

Robert Adès is Honorary Research Fellow at the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London. He holds an MA (Hons) in Philosophy from Edinburgh University and an MSc in Psychoanalytic Studies from University College London. Before joining The Collected Works, he was Honorary Psychotherapist at the Maudsley Hospital and at Parkside Clinic, London.

The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott

12-Volume Set

D. W. Winnicott, Edited by Lesley Caldwell, and Helen Taylor Robinson

Reviews and Awards

Winner of the American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize for best books published in 2016

The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott

12-Volume Set

D. W. Winnicott, Edited by Lesley Caldwell, and Helen Taylor Robinson

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But, on this occasion, it is also thanks to a certain Donald Woods Winnicott'perhaps most of all'that this commemorative moment in history takes place. Winnicott, as President of the British Psychoanalytic Society, was instrumental in raising awareness and funds in the 1960s for getting this same statue by Nemon cast and put up in North London for the first time.

In his 1954 essay 'Metapsychological and Clinical Aspects of Regression within the Psycho-Analytical Set', Donald Winnicott states: 'The idea of psycho-analysis as an art must gradually give way to a study of environmental adaptation relative to patients' regressions. ['¦] I know from experience that some will say: all this leads to a theory of development which ignores the early stages of the development of the individual, which ascribes early development to environmental factors.

Donald Winnicott (1896'1971) is one the most original and creative thinkers in the history of psychoanalysis after Freud. His theories about the early interaction between the infant and its environment, transitional objects and phenomena, true and false self, the relation between the analysand and the analyst, and many other topics have been of great importance for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, social workers, teachers, and others all over the world.

Winnicott's admiration for Freud developed apace. When Freud emigrated to London in 1938 to escape the Nazi menace, Winnicott paid an unexpected visit to Freud's home in order to inquire about the well-being of the Viennese refugees and to offer help and support ' a gesture deeply appreciated by the family. Throughout his working life, Winnicott remained a devoted Freudian.

Our appetite for books on baby care seems unquenchable. The combination of the natural curiosity and uncertainty of the expectant mother, the unknowable mind of the infant, and the expectations of society creates a void filled with all kinds of manuals and confessionals offering advice, theory, reassurance, anecdotes, schedules'¦ and inevitably, inconsistency, disagreement, and further anxiety.